Perhaps life really is "what happens, when you are busy doing something else". Our something else involves daily trips to the park with our beloved canine, 'Sam'. It includes trips to Costco and to our neighborhood grocery store. It's the never-ending loads of laundry, and a house which will likely never be 'clean' again. It's hours that become days, and months that disappear with remarkable ease.
Like all parents, if we're not careful, our 'something else' just may cause us to miss our child's tiny (and some not so tiny) accomplishments. On March 31st, Maya discovered that she could roll from her back to her tummy, all by herself. On April 8th, she taught us to 'clap hands'. Somewhere along the way, she learned to use her index finger and thumb to feed herself Cherrios (no small feat believe me!). She learned to crawl, sort of, in a backwards direction, and is just now starting to push forward. Her 'spaghetti legs' ,as Paul calls them, are getting stronger and she delights in being able to stand up against our ottoman.
It's hard for us to believe that just three months ago Maya was a 15 lb little girl with very little muscle tone. She could not sit without assistance or intentionally grab anything with her hands. But oh, since then progress has occurred. Just the other night, we observed her playing with her elephant 'shape-sorting' toy on the living-room floor. To my amazement, she correctly inserted the orange star, and the lime-green block into their respective openings. My thought was ' dear God, this kid's a genius !', but then she proceded to try to smash the remaining shapes into whatever opening was available - so much for an early acceptance to Harvard !!
